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" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "

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" There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. "

" When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. "

" I can say whatever it is that I feel. "

" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "

" The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. "

" We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. "

" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "

" The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. "

" I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.' "

" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "

" For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. "

" 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. "

" It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. "

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" The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. "

" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "

" If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. "

" I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. "

" Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. "

" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "

" In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. "

" Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it. "

" No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. "

" Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. "

" I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. "

" Work is valued by the social value of the worker. "

" What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories. "

" In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. "

" Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for. "